mart

• (General American) enPR: märt, IPA^(key): /mɑɹt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mɑːt/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t

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From Middle Dutch mart, markt (“market”) (Modern Dutch markt), from Old Dutch *markat, from Late Latin marcātus, an alternative form of Classical Latin mercātus. See market.

mart (plural marts)

1. A shop, store.

   FedMart, Wal-Mart

2. A bazaar, fair, marketplace.
   • c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 87:

     Perhaps ſome Merchant hath inuited him, / And from the Mart he's ſomewhere gone to dinner: / Good Siſter let vs dine, and neuer fret; / A man is Maſter of his libertie:

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 23:3:

     And by great waters the seede of Sihor, the haruest of the riuer is her reuenew, and she is a mart of nations.

   • 1785, William Cowper, “Book I. The Sofa.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, page 38:

     In London; where has commerce ſuch a mart, / So rich, ſo throng'd, ſo drain'd, and ſo ſupplied, / As London, opulent, enlarged, and ſtill / Increaſing, London?

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “Go, Woman!”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 202:

     The world is a great mart, my Holly, where all things are for sale to him who bids the highest in the currency of our desires.

3. (obsolete) A bargain.
   • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 217, column 2:

     Faith Gentlemen now I play a marchants part, / And venture madly on a deſperate Mart.

mart (third-person singular simple present marts, present participle marting, simple past and past participle marted)

1. (obsolete) To buy or sell in, or as in a mart.
   • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     To sell and mart your officer for gold / To undeservers.

2. (obsolete) To traffic.

From Latin Mārs. See Mart.

mart (plural marts)

1. (obsolete) Battle; contest.

Alternative form of marque, perhaps influenced by Etymology 1 above.

mart (uncountable)

1. (historical) Marque (chiefly used in the phrase letters of mart).

Scottish English, from Middle English [Term?], from a Scottish Gaelic root.

mart (plural marts)

1. A head of feeder cattle or fattened cattle (usually the latter).
2. (by extension, the animal or its meat) Salt beef.

• RATM, matr-, tarm, tram

Internationalism; likely via Russian март (mart).

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mart (definite accusative martı, plural martlar)

1. March

• (Gregorian calendar months) ay; yanvar, fevral, mart, aprel, may, iyun, iyul, avqust, sentyabr, oktyabr, noyabr, dekabr ^{(Category: az:Months)}

From a Germanic language.

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾt/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈmart/

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• Rhymes: -aɾt

mart m (plural marts)

1. marten

• “mart” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mart”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “mart” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mart” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Russian март (mart).

mart

1. March

   Synonym: saban ayı

• (Gregorian calendar months) ay; yanvar, fevral, mart, aprel, mayıs, iyün, iyül, avgust, sentâbr, oktâbr, noyabr, dekabr ^{(Category: crh:Months)}

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

mar +‎ -t

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɒrt]

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• Hyphenation: mart

mart

1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of mar

mart

1. past participle of mar

From Old Irish mart (“ox or cow slaughtered for meat, ox- (cow-) carcass”).

• IPA^(key): /mˠaɾˠtˠ/

mart m (genitive singular mairt, nominative plural mairt)

1. heifer or bullock carcass
2. heifer or bullock fattened for slaughter
3. (figurative) beefy person

• mairteoil f (“beef”)
• martán m (“small ox”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “mart”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 mart”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• IPA^(key): /mart/
• Homophone: mard

mart

1. construct form of mara

mart

1. strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of margr

From Dutch maart.

mart

1. March

Months of the year: yanüari (“January”), febrüari (“February”), mart (“March”), aprel (“April”), mei (“May”), yüni (“June”), yüli (“July”), ougùstùs (“August”), sèptèmber (“September”), oktober (“October”), novèmber (“November”), desèmber (“December”).

mart m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of martie

From Old Irish mart (“ox, cow”).

• IPA^(key): /marˠʃt̪/

mart m (genitive singular mairt, plural mairt)

1. cow

• bò

• mairtfheòil (“beef”)

• Edward Dwelly (1911), “mart”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 mart”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• IPA^(key): /mârt/

mȁrt m (Cyrillic spelling ма̏рт)

1. (Bosnia, Serbia) March

   Synonym: (Croatia) òžujak

• mȁrtovskī

• (Gregorian calendar months) m(j)eseci gregorijanskog kalendara; januar/siječanj, februar/veljača, mart/ožujak, april/travanj, maj/svibanj, jun/juni/lipanj, jul/juli/srpanj, avgust/august/kolovoz, septembar/rujan, oktobar/listopad, novembar/studeni, decembar/prosinac ^{(Category: sh:Gregorian calendar months)}

mart (Cyrillic spelling март)

1. March

• (month): Previous: febräl. Next: äpril

From Ottoman Turkish مارت‎, from Byzantine Greek Μᾱ́ρτιος (Mā́rtios), from Latin martius.

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mart (definite accusative martı, plural martlar)

1. March

• (Gregorian calendar months) ay; ocak, şubat, mart, nisan, mayıs, haziran, temmuz, ağustos, eylül, ekim, kasım, aralık ^{(Category: tr:Months)}

Borrowed from Russian март (mart).

mart (definite accusative marty, plural martlar)

1. March

• (Gregorian calendar months) aý; ýanwar, fewral, mart, aprel, maý, iýun, iýul, awgust, sentýabr, oktýabr, noýabr, dekabr ^{(Category: tk:Months)}

From Russian март (mart), from Latin mārtius.

mart (plural martlar)

1. March

• (Gregorian calendar months) oy; yanvar, fevral, mart, aprel, may, iyun, iyul, avgust, sentabr, oktabr, noyabr, dekabr ^{(Category: uz:Months)}